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Dear All

I'm trying to set up a website that is look exectly the same as one that was written using simple HTML pages ( no php,aspx etc) The stylesheets etc were written by a colleague and i am just copying and pasting html into templates and content pages etc.

I'm very pleased how simple it has gone so far ( I tried using Drupal before and that was very complex) But i have a problem with the menu!

The existing site has 5 tabs at the top to select the 5 main sections so the menu on the left hand side just needs to display the subsections and just one level, so there will only be 2 levels across the whole site.

I'm using hanging: minimal_menu

The code on the Template is


{menu template="hanging : minimal_menu" number_of_levels="3"}



I think the code in the menu template is the same as orginally supplied

but its

{* CSS classes used in this template:
.currentpage - The active/current page
.bullet_sectionheader - To style section header
hr.separator - To style the ruler for the separator *}
{if $count > 0}
<ul class="clearfix">
{foreach from=$nodelist item=node}
{if $node->depth > $node->prevdepth}
{repeat string="<ul>" times=$node->depth-$node->prevdepth}
{elseif $node->depth < $node->prevdepth}
{repeat string="</li></ul>" times=$node->prevdepth-$node->depth}
</li>
{elseif $node->index > 0}</li>
{/if}

{if $node->current == true}
<li><a href="{$node->url}" class="currentpage"{if $node->target ne ""} target="{$node->target}"{/if}> {$node->menutext} </a>

{elseif $node->parent == true && $node->depth == 1 and $node->type != 'sectionheader' and $node->type != 'separator'}
<li class="activeparent"> <a href="{$node->url}" class="activeparent"{if $node->target ne ""} target="{$node->target}"{/if}> {$node->menutext} </a>

{elseif $node->type == 'sectionheader'}
<li class="sectionheader">{$node->menutext}

{elseif $node->type == 'separator'}
<li style="list-style-type: none;"> <hr class="separator" />

{else}
<li><a href="{$node->url}"{if $node->target ne ""} target="{$node->target}"{/if}> {$node->menutext} </a>

{/if}

{/foreach}

{repeat string="</li></ul>" times=$node->depth-1}</li>
</ul>
{/if}


I've had a look in the forum and somepeople have wanted to achieve a similar effect but not quite the same thing!

If anyone could give me a clue as to how to hide the top menu item of each section that would be great.

The site is at http://www.bri-advantage ... Membership

CMS Version 1.10.3

Php version 5.2.17

mysql (mysql) 5.1.63

Using litespeed web server


linux 2.6.18-408.el5.lve0.8.61.1 on x86_64



I have already managed to work out how to make the tab selected the correct one by using the name of the parent page so that subsections have the correct active tab, and the image is an Extra Page Attribute.

Kind Regards

Steve Whitcher

I'm sorry but I don't quite understand what you are trying to do, can you link to a working site/page that does what you want or maybe try to explain it more?...

http://www.campden.co.uk/news.htm

This is the page on head offices site (whose site i'm trying to mimic)

It has 5 top level sections

News, Technical services, R&D ,Knowledge services, Member zone

When you are in a section you know which section you are in because the tab changes colour. This much i have replicated.

What i haven't been able to replicate is that the Menu on the left land side rather that having the 5 top level sections and the sections(pages) under that on the left menu, all i want is to have the pages on the menu that belong to the current main section that you are in

Kind Regards

Steve

Excellent just what i needed!
Many thanks

Steve